Aside from building a PC yourself, custom PC sites offer the most bang for your buck; and offer you options for both budget gaming, and extreme gaming PC setups.
Where have, or will you purchase your rig from? If you have already purchased your PC, how much did you spend? What are the specs? If you have yet to decide, what is your budget?
Feel free to describe your dream PC, or tell of a friend's experience with a custom gaming rig.
“We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.” - Albert Einstein
I'm not a computer genius, but I know/can figure out how to install/remove parts. So, I just buy something storefront with okay components and work from there. I like to collect the pieces I take out, in case I want to put something random together later.
@Scyber Going all out with the GTX 590 I see, very nice.
@Magistrate That's not a bad deal, since you just upgrade things as needed. Though if you plan on buying a PC in the future I'd go either with one of the sites listed above, or ordering parts yourself. Store front can offer decent deals, but often you can save a good amount of money going with one of the other two routes.
I don't like pre-made PCs when working with a budget constraint. For the price of any "gaming brand PC" you get a pile of components that not only offers more bang for your buck, but also suits your exact needs.
Aside from building a PC yourself, custom PC sites offer the most bang for your buck; and offer you options for both budget gaming, and extreme gaming PC setups.
Building a rig with your own hand will always be the best way if budget is your main concern. Though if you have the money to spare, having a respected and honorable site as Maingear build your rig for you can be well worth it. They professionally over clock according to your parts, and cooling systems. They bunch and tie wires neatly keeping airflow at a maximum, they run system tests in house, and have over 150 check points they mark, you even get the booklet they used to check off on. You can even call the builder of your rig during open hours.
I've built 3 rigs, and helped my friend (who taught me what I know) with many more. I'm not fond of the process, especially the over clocking. So for me, my next PC will be from one of these sites, I've yet to choose though lol.
“We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.” - Albert Einstein
I built my current system back in 05 and it still suites my needs and wants. I upgraded the graphics card once, but have done no other performance enhancing upgrades since. I'm sure if I had the cash to throw around i'd upgrade my system more often, but I've never felt like it was necessary just to play a certain game. I'm able to play everything to date smoothly, without issue. Sometimes it seems odd to me that people spend so much money on systems so often.
That being said i'm considering building another system in the next year or so. More because I need another system to run a web server here at the house, not because I feel I need a more powerful gaming rig. I'll likely just build one from the ground up and i'm aiming at around $2,000.00. I'll reconfigure this one for my wife and take hers for my impromptu web server. I fully expect my next investment to last me just as long (6+ years).
When I built this system back in 2005 it cost me about $1,400.00 and then I upgraded the graphics card a year and a half ago for another $190.00.
Edit:
I don't have a gaming rig either. I've got a laptop partially sponsored by my university (because it's simply vital to my studies) which is capable to play quite a few games. In fact it runs portal 2 on medium settings pretty good.
Where have, or will you purchase your rig from? If you have already purchased your PC, how much did you spend? What are the specs? If you have yet to decide, what is your budget?
Feel free to describe your dream PC, or tell of a friend's experience with a custom gaming rig.
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I just ordered a bunch of new parts to build a PC. I ordered most of it from newegg except the graphics card.
Intel Core i7-970 Gulftown 3.2GHz LGA 1366 130W Six-Core Desktop Processor BX80613I7970
Hanns-G HZ281HPB 27.5'' 3ms Full HD 1080P HDMI WideScreen LCD Monitor Built-in Speakers
OCZ RevoDrive X2 OCZSSDPX-1RVDX0160 PCI-E 160GB PCI-Express x4 MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)
EVGA GTX 590 CLASSIFIED Limited Edition 3GB 768-bit GDDR5 PCI express 2.0 x16, 3xDual-Link DVI, DisplayPort, HDCP Ready, QUAD SLI Ready, PhysX, 3D Vision Surround Support Video Card
G.SKILL Ripjaws Series 12GB (3 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model F3-12800CL9T-12GBRL
Corsair Obsidian Series 650D (CC650DW-1) Black Steel structure with black brushed aluminum faceplate ATX Mid Tower Computer Case
CORSAIR Professional Series AX1200 1200W ATX12V v2.31 / EPS12V v2.92 SLI Certified 80 PLUS GOLD Certified Modular Active PFC Power Supply
Western Digital Caviar Blue WD5000AAKX 500GB 7200 RPM SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive
ASUS Rampage III Extreme LGA 1366 Intel X58 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard
CORSAIR Hydro H70 CWCH70 120mm High Performance CPU Cooler
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@Scyber: How much did all that cost?
@Magistrate That's not a bad deal, since you just upgrade things as needed. Though if you plan on buying a PC in the future I'd go either with one of the sites listed above, or ordering parts yourself. Store front can offer decent deals, but often you can save a good amount of money going with one of the other two routes.
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Building a rig with your own hand will always be the best way if budget is your main concern. Though if you have the money to spare, having a respected and honorable site as Maingear build your rig for you can be well worth it. They professionally over clock according to your parts, and cooling systems. They bunch and tie wires neatly keeping airflow at a maximum, they run system tests in house, and have over 150 check points they mark, you even get the booklet they used to check off on. You can even call the builder of your rig during open hours.
I've built 3 rigs, and helped my friend (who taught me what I know) with many more. I'm not fond of the process, especially the over clocking. So for me, my next PC will be from one of these sites, I've yet to choose though lol.
Find any Diablo news? Contact me or anyone else on the News team
That being said i'm considering building another system in the next year or so. More because I need another system to run a web server here at the house, not because I feel I need a more powerful gaming rig. I'll likely just build one from the ground up and i'm aiming at around $2,000.00. I'll reconfigure this one for my wife and take hers for my impromptu web server. I fully expect my next investment to last me just as long (6+ years).
When I built this system back in 2005 it cost me about $1,400.00 and then I upgraded the graphics card a year and a half ago for another $190.00.
*shrug*
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Edit:
I don't have a gaming rig either. I've got a laptop partially sponsored by my university (because it's simply vital to my studies) which is capable to play quite a few games. In fact it runs portal 2 on medium settings pretty good.
Join the chat!